8. Discovery at the Hotel

In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Elizabeth acts II. In one of the drawers of his room in the Hotel Savoy he found some objects that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. It so happened that Harry Hannin – a basketball star on the famed Harlem Globetrotter team – was a good friend of Kupcinet, but the story has yet another twist. Only two days later, and before he could call Hannin to tell him of his fortunate discovery. Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin; in the letter he told him that in a recent stay at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, Hannin had found a tie with the name of Kupcinet in a drawer!

9. Poker Game

In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot to death as an act of revenge on the part of those with whom he was playing poker. According to them, Fallon had earned them $ 600 cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty, and with no other player dare to take the now $ 600 gaff, they found a new player to take care of the man’s money and continue the game. By the time police arrived to investigate the murder, the new player had turned Fallon’s $ 600 into $ 2,200. The police claimed the original $ 600 to get them to Fallon’s legal heir, and at that time they discovered that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s own son, who had not seen his father for the last seven years.

10. Historical Coincidence

The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the founders of the United States of America. Jefferson scribbled the Declaration of Independence by giving the sketches to Adams, who (with the collaboration of Benjamin Franklin) helped him edit and refine it. The document was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826; Exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.